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Racket v9.0(blog.racket-lang.org)
335 points by Fice 10mo ago|126 comments
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by Fice 3y ago
> We need a way to embed project metadata into .git itself, so source code commits don't mess up with wikis and issues. Fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org ) embeds issues, wiki etc. into project repository.
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by Fice 3y ago
Vulnerabilities such as spectre are only relevant if you run untrusted non-free software. Also these vulnerabilities show that sandboxing is not effective on current CPUs, and specific mitigations does not solve the problem in general.
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by Fice 3y ago
They can't distribute firmware blobs simply because FSF and GNU do not in principle participate in distribution of any non-free programs. Also consider that if a manufacturer can distribute opaque firmware updates to your system, it pr
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by Fice 3y ago
As a Russian I'd rather call it the Putin's war.
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by Fice 3y ago
From my own experience, JPEG quality and compression efficiency can differ a lot depending on the encoder implementation. It would make more sense to compare specific encoders rather than formats in general. In 2014 (WebP was released in 20
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by Fice 3y ago
Of course, no one will be making cars intentionally unsafe, but the law is also a risk factor, the risks of getting fined, jail time or licence revocation count too, and these risks can be made higher.
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by Fice 3y ago
Advertising does not simply suggest you something that you might need, it often tries to manipulate you into needing something, and with the amounts of personal data being collected and advancements in machine learning this manipulation bec
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What Tracking Does to the Parent-Child Relationship(freerangekids.com)
3 points by Fice 3y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 3y ago
Telling computers and humans apart is a wrong goal. Every request comes from a computer that is commanded by some human. And why shouldn't users be allowed to use automated user agents when they don't do it for spamming or anythin
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by Fice 4y ago
There is also Simutrans-Extended ( https://bridgewater-brunel.me.uk/ ) — a fork that adds even more detail and realism to the simulation and tries to achieve better game balance.
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by Fice 4y ago
> Human-sized computing: a reasonable level of complexity for a computing system is that it can be entirely understood by a single person (from the low-level hardware details to the application-level quirks). "Personal Mastery: If a
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by Fice 5y ago
Can a vendor be held responsible for anything an unauthorized pirated copy of their software does?
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by Fice 5y ago
You don't. That's a way to punish all users of pirated software.
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by Fice 5y ago
Software vendors can deliberately leak "pirated" copies of their programs to Russian torrent sites with backdoors and other malicious code added. That could be an effective countermeasure.
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by Fice 5y ago
Using git is no big deal, but storing the repo on Github means sharing the information with a third party (Microsoft) even if the repo is kept "private".
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by Fice 5y ago
Disruption of the Internet service will be very damaging to Russian anti-war protests.
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by Fice 5y ago
Our perception of time is very subjective: it is affected by our age, by what we are doing, and it is known that it can be significantly altered by consuming certain substances. We learned from others that there was time before we were born
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by Fice 5y ago
> Crazy how evil Google is. And the even worse evil are the website owners who betray their own users by placing third-party trackers on their own sites.
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by Fice 5y ago
This is not enough if we don't stop DRM (which Firefox also supports). DRM essentially means: only allow access with a program that implements certain required measures to restrict user's control over their own computer. Using con
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On Progress(acko.net)
2 points by Fice 5y ago|0 comments
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FutureLaw 2021: opening keynote by Alan Kay(redirect.invidious.io)
1 points by Fice 5y ago|0 comments
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Bad UX is not an obstacle for a successful business(grumpy.website)
1 points by Fice 5y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 5y ago
I'd go further and say that computers are supposed to be used by programming them.
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by Fice 5y ago
> I think that Google using data to personalize ads and recommend videos is ethically ok. Advertising does not simply make people aware about some goods and services, it often works by manipulating peoples desires and fears. And to manip
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I2P's Threat Model(geti2p.net)
1 points by Fice 5y ago|0 comments
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How to Forget Everything(tinyletter.com)
1 points by Fice 5y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 5y ago
Not the whole team. There are people with different opinions.
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On Sperging Out(acko.net)
3 points by Fice 5y ago|0 comments
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Artificial Sweeteners May Play Role in Spread of Antibiotic Resistance(sci-news.com)
1 points by Fice 6y ago|0 comments

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